You can tell it's Academy Awards season when the cinemas are crowded with high quality flicks, all hoping to capitalise on the free publicity. These five movies are all Oscar hopefuls and all of them rate the maximum five stars from Time Out critics. From Scorsese's latest epic to searing coming-of-age dramas, these are the ones to tick off your list.

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Right from the beginning of Pablo Larraín’s near-experimental stunner, you can tell you’re in for a psychodrama of strange, hypnotic intimacy
Barry Jenkins’s exquisite coming-of-age drama is a heartbreaker, filled with miracles
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Actor Casey Affleck joins the ranks of giants in a tremendously moving portrait of grief from American writer-director Kenneth Lonergan
Embarrassing dads don't come much more meaningful (or embarrassing) than the one in this German comedy
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Scorsese's epic of faith under fire set in 17th-century Japan ranks among the greatest achievements of spiritually minded cinema
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